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by mordymoop 3y ago
Andreesen went on so many podcasts talking up their crypto bets. It was such a clear failure mode of a massively high horsepower brain drawing elaborate mental constructs to justify an obviously stupid conclusion. His writing is a treasure
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I feel like our positions are probably both buried in webs of mutually-difficult-to-communicate worldview assumptions, but for what it’s worth, I care more at this point about the models being useful than being meaningful. I use GPT-4 to do
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by mordymoop 4y ago
Even very simple and small neural networks that you can easily train and play with on your laptop readily show that this “outputs are just the average of inputs” conception is just wrong. And it’s not wrong in some trickle philosophical sen
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by mordymoop 4y ago
Cool to see the two guys who have been most consistently proven wrong over the last 3 years join forces.
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by mordymoop 4y ago
It is very hard for people to avoid dragging in anthropomorphic assumptions. A person will scream and curse at a door jamb for crushing their thumbnail. A person will fantasize about smashing a printer. The idea that an AI might exterminate
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I can definitely relate to your experience. Just last week, I leveraged AI tools to develop some data processing code. Estimating how long it would have taken me to write that code without these tools is a challenge because, to be honest, a
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I have … “joked” that the mushrooms/plants have influenced their hosts brain in a similar way to some fungus or worm causing a bug to climb up a grass stalk to be eaten by a bird. The level of evangelism can be disturbing, viewed in th
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by mordymoop 4y ago
The Path 2.0 system is a new RPG-inspired skilltree for personal development, offered by the Guild of the Rose, which is itself an online community-based organization for structured self improvement. You can pursue the Path system independe
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Show HN: Path 2.0, a Skilltree for Structured Self-Improvement(guildoftherose.org)
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by mordymoop 4y ago
> Turning electricity into hydrogen and then into motive power for a car is dramatically less efficient than using a battery This is true —- but the total quantity of battery storage potential is utterly dwarfed by the storage potential
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by mordymoop 4y ago
"This is an annotated transcript of a conversation featuring {made up AI life coach name}, one of the most sought-after life coaches of all time. {name} has advised and worked with luminaries such as {long list of people that I persona
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I spent about two weeks having "morning meetings" with my AI life coach, which was essentially just a GPT-3 prompt that I continually tuned, and fed (summaries of) the previous days' conversations. There were major advantages
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by mordymoop 4y ago
Demonstrating that the model fails to do a thing does not prove nor even particularly suggest that it can’t do that thing.
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by mordymoop 4y ago
This is one of those instances where it would have been useful to: - somehow not see that headline number of 1,500 first - come up with a guess (or look up) how many animals are typically killed in medical testing procedures for drugs, surg
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by mordymoop 4y ago
A huge source of subjective user frustration with voice assistants is the lack of responsiveness to both commands and interruptions. Siri in particular will wait as long as a full second to “ding” letting you know she’s ready to process a c
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by mordymoop 4y ago
My stupid question is, shouldn’t plants grow back relatively quickly (within a few years) and lock up the same quantity of carbon?
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by mordymoop 4y ago
For some reason — no idea why — this problem went away when I set n_samples to 1 and scale to 10.0 or less. Why these parameters would impact memory usage, I don’t know, but the image quality seems fine, afaict.
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by mordymoop 4y ago
Diamond Age is the one I keep going back to and getting more out of over the years.
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by mordymoop 4y ago
While I'm sure many people were laboring under the belief that a stablecoin couldn't fall, I've seen lots of commentary about various stablecoins not being properly backed by USD and thus being probable targets for an attack
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I'm genuinely confused. This current crash is not nearly as bad as several recent crashes. The fall in price in the big coins (Eth, BTC) seems downright modest. A bunch of new meme coins got obliterated, which is also normal and comple
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I wonder if people know that electric razors last like … ten years. I’ve owned, I think, two electric razors in my life, and I’m in my late thirties. I never have to replace any part of it.
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by mordymoop 4y ago
I think you're right and agree that it will be interesting to see how this unfolds. I have seen the meme going around about Boomers choosing to spend all their wealth on vacations of luxury cars and leaving their kids almost nothing,
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by mordymoop 4y ago
Your first paragraph is something that I, a middle-Millenial, could have written when I was 20. Fight Club , a film about young men broken by the dehumanizing nihilism of “working a job you hate to buy stuff you don’t need” (among other th
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by mordymoop 4y ago
An example of this is when collecting and summarizing anonymous feedback.
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by mordymoop 4y ago
That struck me as well. I’m used to seeing intervals like 11 am to 6 pm, which tactically cuts out “breakfast” and likely reduces the average calories you manage to fit in over the day.
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by mordymoop 5y ago
I feel like this is a good place to put the PSA that modern headache treatments have gotten really good, the CGRP drugs for migraine prevention are miraculous for some people and the triptans for migraine treatment can be a reliable stop-bu
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by mordymoop 5y ago
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
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by mordymoop 5y ago
Right, I don't know why people are so invested in minimizing how powerful this tool is. I have never properly learned Javascript but I can write Javascript using Copilot because copilot doesn't really make syntax errors, and I can
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by mordymoop 5y ago
I have also heard them called that, but I agree it is an almost actively misleading label.
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by mordymoop 5y ago
I didn’t find out until many years after graduating that the US is sprinkled with what are known as Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), including a large number of well-regarded 4-year colleged which don’t have graduate programs, t

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